No thanks. There’s a entirely “new breed” of jokers, trolls and keyboard warriors here nowadays. I have told moderators about and ZERO has happpened. What a shame and I donate $$ here
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I hear ya…
53 I had to learn how to take things … And when I did that at age 20 it really helped me a whole, whole lot.
I looked back when I was in middle school and it hit me that maybe… just maybe I was taking people way too seriously.. And maybe that is what was going on.
I got to where with a guy in 7th grade by the end of the school year I was about ready to get into a serious physical fight with him… I had had enough…
Well in 9th grade we had him together.. He and I were pla basketball and I threw 2 of his shots 20 plus feet out of bounds… One in the bleachers and the other into a wall that was 25 feet behind him when he shot the ball.?” I was getting even in my head. Felt quite good too.
Well in 11th grade he and I had Oceanography class together… I was like **** it.. This sucks.. But to my rather great surprise he never messed with me at all. In fact he was pretty cool and good with me. Later that year towards the end of school we were playing basketball at a place called Ark park. I was just about under the basket and had 4 running steps towards him as he caught the ball and was about to shoot the ball behind the 3 point line. And at this time I was legit jumping over 38 inches off the ground… I was flying just as he raised up to shoot that ball. He decided not to at the last second as I flew by him with my feet over his waist line… A guy playing with him fussed at him for not shooting the ball. And I will never do what he said, “ msn I ain’t gonna shoot that ball with Carl Lewis running and jumping at me like that.” I laughed as I came back to him and I told him.. “ yeah man I was trying to get ya.” If he would have shot that ball… It would have been thrown 40 feet behind him out of bounds into the woods.. I swear… We had a very good time that afternoon together.
Flash forward from that day 6 years later…. I had gotten out of the hospital and was totally blind in my left eye. And who was the first person I had to see right after that ? That same guy I was just about ready to fight in 7th grade. He was as genuine, kind and good to me as anybody could ever ask for… it really meant a whole, whole lot to me.
And afterwards I thought about how glad I was that I didn’t get into a fight with him late in 7th grade for making fun of me during that year.
What I started to think about even years after that day in April of 1999…
Was maybe I was taking things way too personally and bad back in 7th grade and up until I was 20 years old….
I guarantee I did that.
What I am trying to convey here to you is this… Maybe just maybe don’t take things so personally and negatively. .
It’s highly likely that the guys on here really don’t mean it that way.
s still with me.
